Essays about: "dumpster diving"

Found 5 essays containing the words dumpster diving.

1. 1. Beyond the Bin: Dumpster Diving as an Alternative Consumer Practice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Adam Christensson; Vendela Melin; [2023]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Title: Beyond the Bin: Dumpster Diving as an Alternative Consumer Practice - Investigating the Motivations and Methods of Urban Foragers Course: BUSN39 Business Administration: Degree Project in Global Marketing - Master level Authors: Adam Christensson and Vendela Melin Supervisor: Annette Cerne Keywords: Dumpster diving, Social movement, Consumer resistance, Theory of planned behavior (TPB). Purpose: The study investigates dumpster diving motivations, methods, and its role as a resistance against conventional consumption patterns. READ MORE

3. 2. Resisting Food Waste

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Linnéa Berg; [2022]
   Keywords : dumpster diving; legal consciousness; Patricia Ewick; Susan S. Silbey; sociology of law; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Today, about one-third of all produced food and drinks are neither eaten nor drunk and turn into food waste. To put this number into perspective, the amount of wasted food would feed three billion people each year. From 2012 to 2018, Swedish grocery stores have more than doubled their amount of food waste, now reaching 100 000 tons per year. READ MORE

4. 3. Food Safety Risk Perceptions in the Dumpster Diving Community and Analysis of Bacterial Burden in Discarded Foods

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi

   Author : Corneus Allyson; [2021]
   Keywords : Dumpster diving; totting; skipping; biomedicine; global health; public health; life sciences; microbiology of the food;

   Abstract : The main topic of this study was dumpster diving (the act of retrieving discarded goods, in this case especially food, from waste containers) and the exploration of this activity from the infection biology viewpoint. Dumpster diving is a common way of accessing goods without spending economic resources, as well as an expression of anti-consumerism or civil disobedience. READ MORE

5. 4. Challenging food norms: Understanding the dumpster diving culture in Gothenburg, Sweden

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Kristina Larsson; [2017-06-30]
   Keywords : dumpster diving; anti-consumption; consumer resistance; experiential hedonic consumption; food waste; Sweden;

   Abstract : explore the various motivations for diving in commercial containers and to provide deeper insights into the multifaceted culture of dumpster diving. Methodology: Data triangulation combining in-depth interviews, ethnographic dives and netnography of online dumpster diving communities. READ MORE

6. 5. Food Waste, Shop Lifting and Dumpster Diving : Ethical Conceptions of Waste and the Re-Appropriation of Goods

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Centrum för tillämpad etik; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Finlay Mackie; [2014]
   Keywords : Ethics; Property; Waste; Locke; Utilitarianism; Mutualism; Proudhon; Food Waste; Theft;

   Abstract : This paper examines two contrasting ethical approaches to waste within the context of modern day western food poverty and attempts to examine the justifications that these ethical definitions of waste might lend to impoverished people in re-appropriating the wasted food for themselves. Towards the end of the paper there is also a brief discussion regarding the political implications that can be found in competing ethical definitions of waste. READ MORE